Buckhound

Buckhound, a name applied to the royal pack of staghounds, which are large-sized foxhounds. The mastership of the Buckhounds, which it was proposed in 1892 to abolish, is always held by a prominent nobleman, who goes in and out with the government. From 1366 till 1633 the mastership was hereditary in the Brocas family. See the monograph on the Brocas by Burrows (1886), and J. P. Hore's History of the Royal Buckhounds (1894).